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  • Long-term health impacts of flooding revealed

    Long-term health impacts of flooding revealed

    The world’s largest and most comprehensive study of the long-term health impacts of flooding — via analysis of over 300 million hospitalizations records in eight countries prone to flooding events — has found an increased risk of 26 per cent of all diseases serious enough to require hospitalization. This impact on the health of communities lasts up to seven months post event.

    The study, led by Monash University researchers, and published in the journal, Nature Water, found that flooding…

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  • Smoke from US wildfires, prescribed burns caused premature deaths, billions in health damages

    Smoke from US wildfires, prescribed burns caused premature deaths, billions in health damages

    Since the end of the 20th century, air pollution from most U.S. sources has decreased, but emissions from wildland fires have risen. In a new study, researchers estimated that smoke from wildfires and prescribed burns caused $200 billion in health damages in 2017, and that these were associated with 20,000 premature deaths. Senior citizens were harmed the most, and Native American and Black communities experienced the greatest damages per capita.

    The study, by researchers at Carnegie Mellon…

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  • Stronger coffee with fewer coffee beans

    Stronger coffee with fewer coffee beans

    Tens of billions of kilograms of coffee are consumed around the world each year. However, due to its very specific agricultural needs, coffee can be difficult to cultivate, and ongoing climate change threatens its growth.

    To efficiently meet the high demand for coffee grounds, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania worked to optimize their use in pour-over coffee. They presented their suggestions in Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing.

    “What we recommend is making the pour height…

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  • Groundbreaking study reveals changes in brain cell composition and gene activity in Tourette syndrome

    Groundbreaking study reveals changes in brain cell composition and gene activity in Tourette syndrome

    In the first comprehensive, cell-by-cell analysis of brain tissue from individuals with Tourette syndrome, researchers have pinpointed exactly which cells are perturbed and how they malfunction, revealing how different types of brain cells are affected by the condition. Findings from this groundbreaking study in Biological Psychiatry, published by Elsevier, provide unprecedented insights into the interplay of different brain cell types in Tourette syndrome, suggesting new therapeutic…

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  • ALS drug effectively treats Alzheimer’s disease in new animal study

    ALS drug effectively treats Alzheimer’s disease in new animal study

    Experimental drug NU-9 — a small molecule compound approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical trials for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — improves neuron health in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new Northwestern University study.

    Like ALS, Alzheimer’s disease also results from misfolded proteins that damage brain health. Rather than treating symptoms from specific diseases, NU-9 instead addresses the underlying…

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  • CVD and obesity: When protective lipids decline, health risks increase

    CVD and obesity: When protective lipids decline, health risks increase

    New research from Weill Cornell Medicine has uncovered a surprising culprit underlying cardiovascular diseases in obesity and diabetes — not the presence of certain fats, but their suppression. The study, published Feb. 25 in Nature Communications, challenges the conventional belief that a type of fat called ceramides accumulates in blood vessels causing inflammation and health risks. Instead, their findings reveal that when ceramides decrease in endothelial cells lining blood vessels, it…

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  • Israeli occupation escalates its military measures and harasses citizens at the Beit Furik checkpoint.

    Israeli occupation escalates its military measures and harasses citizens at the Beit Furik checkpoint.

    The occupation forces escalated their measures at the Beit Furik …

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  • ‘War Crime’ – PRCS Urges Independent Probe into ‘Massacre’ of Medics

    ‘War Crime’ – PRCS Urges Independent Probe into ‘Massacre’ of Medics

    The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) announced that it had recovered the bodies of 14 workers in Rafah. (Photo: supplied)

    By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

    The horrific attack on March 23, 2035, in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, resulted in the killing of 15 humanitarian workers.

    As new audio and video footage emerges of the Israeli army’s targeting of a convoy of emergency vehicles in Gaza, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) affirmed that the attack “constitutes a…

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  • Kabul slams Pakistan’s ‘violence’ against Afghans pressured to leave

    Kabul slams Pakistan’s ‘violence’ against Afghans pressured to leave

    The Taliban government accused Pakistan on Tuesday of violently expelling Afghans after Islamabad cancelled hundreds of thousands of residence permits, pressuring families across the border.

    Islamabad announced at the start of March that 800,000 Afghan Citizen Cards (ACC) would be cancelled — the second phase of a deportation programme which has already expelled around 800,000 undocumented Afghans.

    “The mistreatment of them (Afghans) by neighbouring countries is unacceptable and intolerable,”…

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  • Pro-Turkey Syria groups reduce presence in Kurdish area: official

    Pro-Turkey Syria groups reduce presence in Kurdish area: official

    Pro-Turkey Syrian groups have scaled down their military presence in an historically Kurdish-majority area of the country’s north which they have controlled since 2018, a Syrian defence ministry official said on Tuesday.

    The move follows an agreement signed last month between Syria’s new authorities and Kurdish officials that provides for the return of displaced Kurds, including tens of thousands who fled the Afrin region in 2018.

    The pro-Ankara groups have “reduced their military presence and…

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